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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I should firstly like to thank our colleague for her work. As the European Parliament’s rapporteur on the rights of minors, I should like to focus on an important part of this report, that is the part on Roma children. I should like to remind everyone here that it is children who suffer the worst problems of discrimination and social exclusion.
In Europe there are many, too many street children, often from Roma backgrounds, who have no future because they have not had a proper school education and in many cases are completely illiterate. These children do not receive proper medical care or the necessary vaccinations. They are consequently children who do not have a future, because they have been denied their childhood and because they are often forced to beg, to collect handouts, almost always during school hours, or end up in illegal work.
As the report also says, the Member States have to commit themselves to introducing positive policies against discrimination. In this particular case, policies that guarantee children’s entitlement to an education and that require the families of these Roma children to make sure that they attend compulsory education. Suitable campaigns also need to be run to encourage citizens to work with schools to prevent instances of discrimination, exploitation and social exclusion among children.
I would also conclude by saying that it is unacceptable that too many Member States, unfortunately including my own country, Italy, have yet properly to transpose the provisions of the Directive into national law."@en1
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